Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence

Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence

Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence, also known as LBS Hall is the largest hall of residence at IIT Kharagpur.

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Founded	2011
Motto	LEARN BELIEVE SUCCEED
Office
Warden	Prof. Inder Shekhar Yadav
Asst. Warden(s)	Prof. Ajay M Sidpara Prof. Sunil Manohar Dash Prof. Gourav Dhar Bhowmick Prof. Siddharth Tamang
Hall President	Priyanshu Nanda
SSM	Pankaj Guriyan
Office No.	(Warden) +91-3222-283798
Website	http://lbsiitkgp.in/
Infrastructure
Capacity	2000+
Gender	Boys Hostel
Sharing	Double, Triple
Details
Canteen	Nescafe Mess Night Canteen C-Block Canteen
Shops	Xerox & Stationery Shop Fruits & Juice Shop General Store

History

The hall was founded in 2011 and is the newest of all the 22 halls of IIT Kharagpur. In 2011, finished blocks (A, D) were allotted to M.Tech and PhD students. Later in 2012, the construction of B, AB blocks were complete and were allotted to the undergraduate freshers. The construction was finally completed in 2013. In 2014, graduate students were shifted to MMM Hall and B R Ambedkar Hall, thus making it an undergraduate hall in entirety.

Infrastructure

The five floored (G+4) building of the hall is divided into four blocks - A, B, C and D, each of them fully connected through AA, AB, BC, CD and DD blocks respectively. With an expandable capacity of more than 2000, it currently houses 1997 students which includes around 1535 first year undergraduate students. It has a separate two floor unit building attached to the southern side of building which provides space for two food messes.

Music Room

The music room is equipped with all the required and most played music instruments with the greatest quality product. It's current location is C-Block ground floor.

Sports

The hall is fully equipped with space and equipment requirements for several sports activities. It has two badminton courts, a basketball court, two table tennis tables, a football ground, a cricket pitch for net practice, and a volleyball court. There is a gym located at the ground floor of BC Block.

Shops & Eateries

• A night canteen which operates at 2nd floor mess from 9:30 pm till 2:30 am in the morning.
• A Nescafe shop just beside the main gate where you can get tea, coffee & fast food like burger, patties. It opens in morning at 9 AM and remains open till 3 AM in the morning.
• A juice stall also operates jointly and remains open from 10 am in the morning till evening and reopens in night. (Ram Da)
• DD-100s series has the LBS Milk Stall where he sells Milk, Maggi, Dosa and Uthappam, Biriyani (Mon, Thurs, Sat) and other snack items
• A general store at the ground floor of AB block for general goods and everyday utilities including food and drinks. (Open till 11PM)

Utilities

• A Xerox & Stationery shop with all the supporting utilities in the ground floor of B-wing.
• A laundry service is also present in the ground floor of CD-wing.

Common room

There is Common Room in the A block of the hall which houses events, workshops and information seminars.

Garden

A beautiful hanging garden is being made at the entrance of hall (currently out of condition)

Hall council

Designation	2023-24	2022-23	2021-22	2020-21	2019-20	2018-19	2017-18	2016-17	2015-16	2014-15	2013-14
Hall President	Priyanshu Nanda	Utkarsh Dwivedi	Kshitij Prasad	A N Dinesh Chandra	Devansh Bhatt Suraj Kumar	Vivek Kumar	Kuntal Das	Sharad Kumar	KSV Chary	Abhishek Padmsale	Paramjeet Singh
Second Senate Member	Pankaj Guriyan	Daundkar Pritam Goraksh	Nitin Kohli	Aashwin Gupta	Nihir Kumar	Sachin Singh	Mitul Panchal	Surepeddi Anjan	Srinivas Reddy	Babu Lal	Anirbhan
General Secretary Social & Cultural	Abhi Patidar	Bhuvnesh Khantwal	Sreyash Layak	Nitin Kohli	Aashwin Gupta	Nihir Kumar	Javed Ali Khan	Kuntal Das	Sarthak Saha	Dipan Biswas	Pawan Kedia
General Secretary Sports & Games	Priyanshu Shaw	Varun Chowdhary	Swagata Naskar	Arun Nayak	Ujjawal Kumar Nayak	Sachin Kumar	Himanshu Joshi	Amit Patidar	V Vishal Reddy	KSV Chary	Rahul Arya
General Secretary Technology	Abhraneel Ghosh	Amey Milind Sankhe	Chinmay Jain	Pranay Raj	Jatin Chhapola	Sumit Kumar Singh	Samyak Malhotra	Pramod Singh	Rishabh Shrivastava	Akhilesh	Anupam Pedarla
General Secretary Mess	Satyajeet Behera & Shashank Singhania	Shon Ravindra Bakal	Aditya Chawla		Mayank Soni Suraj Kumar	Anurag Mondal	Ravi Sharma	Anish Tiwari	Arihant Jain	Rahul Arya	Anuj Rajput
General Secretary Maintenance	Manas Raj & Mridul Kumar	Sushant Sunil Deshmukh	Shubham Agrawal		Parth Sarthi Roy	Devansh Bhatt	Vikash Kumar	Mithil Bang	Salapu Sai Ashik	Manoj Kumar M	Babu Lal
General Secretary Students' Welfare	Pranjal Rathore & Virat Dwivedi	Vishal Dharmaraj Sonune	Palkit Lohia	Aman Khashbar	Adarsh Goyal	Archak Basak	Ranadip Roy
General Secretary Library	Harsh Kaliramna	Randheer Kumar			Adarsh Gupta
General Secretary Alumni Affairs & Hall Development	Harsh Kaliramna	Randheer Kumar	Soumya Tarafder		Adarsh Gupta
Social & Cultural Coordinator					Charan Rathod	A N Dinesh Chandra

Hall Day

Year 2016 : The Hall Day of LBS was celebrated on 3rd April 2016, Sunday. The hall was beautifully decorated and a DJ was also arranged at the ground between the C and D blocks.

Year 2017 : The Hall Day of LBS was supposed to be celebrated on 31st March 2017, however it got postponed to 2nd April 2017 due to an unfortunate incident. DJ and Food stalls were arranged in the AB ground.

General championship

2018-19

Social & Cultural

10th in Social & Cultural General Championship 2018-19 with 110 points.

Ranking	Event	Points
	Bengali Elocution	30
	Western Vocals	25

Sports & Games

Bronze in Sports and Games General Championship 2018-19 with 32 points.

Ranking	Event	Points
	Basketball, Hockey	20
	Volleyball, Table Tennis	12

Technology

6th in Technology General Championship 2018-19 with 18 points.

Ranking	Event	Points
	Case Study	10
	Bizquiz, Techquiz	8

2015-16

Social & Cultural

7th in Social & Cultural General Championship 2015-16 with 180 points.

Ranking	Event	Points
	Sketching	60
	Cartooning, Eastern Groups	95
	Hindi Elocution	25

Sports & Games

Gold in Sports and Games General Championship 2015-16 with 62 points.

Ranking	Event	Points
	Table Tennis, Chess, Lawn Tennis (Singles and Doubles), Badminton
	Cricket, Football, Swimming

Technology

Gold in Technology General Championship.

Ranking	Event	Points
	Case Study, Hardware Modelling, ChemQuest	250
	Product Design	60

2014-15

Sports & Games

Bronze in Sports and Games General Championship 2014-15 with 48 points.

Ranking	Event	Points
	Volleyball, Table Tennis, Basketball	30
	Cricket	6
	Chess, Badminton,water polo	12

Technology

6th in Technology General Championship 2014-15 with 100 points.

Ranking	Event	Points
	Hardware Modelling	100

Hardware Modelling

Consecutive gold for LBS Hall in the session 2015-16 and 2014-15. The autonomous bicycle, a submission by LBS Hall received accolades has also been covered by media websites.

Hall Culture

LBS Recreation Month

Initiated in 2014, the LBS Recreation Month, or the #LBSRecMonth is a month long event aimed at increasing interactions between students of LBS Hall, IIT Kharagpur. It consists of a host of Team-building games and events with a prerequisite that a team formed must have a mix of students from at least two different batches.

Spanning a month, the event encompasses around 10 team events. Each event having teams with at least one 3rd year, one 2nd year and two 1st years students. LBS Recreation Month is a fun, innovative and an effective way to bring in interaction between various batches of students.

The events planned and held in LBS Recreation Month of 2014 are as follows:

(Italicized events were planned but not held)

• Dumb Charades
• Mafia
• Tug of War
• Call of Duty
• Coding Event
• Bluff (Card Game)
• Gully Cricket
• Counter Strike
• Truth or Dare
• The Amazing Race : LBS
• DJ Night
• Fine Arts

References

1. LBS website www.lbsiitkgp.in. Retrieved October 30, 2016.